Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich (Hermann) zu Solms-Laubach, Graf zu Solms-Laubach
1842–1915
German botanist. Studied botany at Gießen, Freiburg, and Berlin; doctorate, Berlin, 1865. Habilitated at Halle, 1868. Professor of botany and director of the botanic gardens, Göttingen, 1879; Berlin, 1887, Straßburg (Strasbourg), 1888–1907. Worked mainly on the morphology and systematics of parasitic angiosperms, the history of cultivated plants, palaeobotany, and phylogeny.
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NDB.
Bibliography
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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